Day: April 13, 2016

Dante’s epic 14th-century poem the Divine Comedy – with its dazzling descriptions of all manner of hellish and heavenly scenes – has proven fertile ground for many artists over the centuries, including the likes of William Blake, Gustave Doré, and Salvador Dali. One of the most impressive attempts to render the verse into visuals comes[…]

It wasn’t all about Robert the Bruce, y’know. Andrew Baddeley Dr. David Green Senior Lecturer in British Studies University of Nottingham The battle of Bannockburn, fought over two days in June 1314, saw King Robert I of Scotland (Robert Bruce) obliterate a substantially larger army led by King Edward II of England. This public, personal[…]

“What we found is they knew a great deal, and they knew it much earlier and with greater certainty than anyone has recognized or that the industry has admitted.” By Nadia Prupis / 04.13.2016 A trove of newly uncovered documents shows that fossil fuel companies were explicitly warned of the risks of climate change decades[…]

Ethan Couch Arrested in Mexico / Creative Commons By Matthew A. McIntosh / 04.13.2016 Ethan Couch, who was driving drunk as a teenager and caused the deaths of four people, appeared in court today to face the music for a probation violation following video of him obviously at a party involving alcohol and fleeing to[…]

A Community of Inquiry at the 2014 Victorian Primary Philosothon conducted at the National Gallery of Victoria. Image source: http://vaps.vic.edu.au/ Victorian Association for Philosophy in Schools, Author provided By Dr. Laura D’Olimpio Senior Lecturer in Philosophy University of Notre Dame Australia It has been a good week for philosophy. The results of a year long[…]

Early Medieval Map of Europe / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Paul Freedman Chester D. Tripp Professor of History Yale University Third Century Crisis and Barbarian Invasions Diocletian / Creative Commons The third century crisis was a crisis of the Roman Empire that preceded the accession of Diocletian, from 235 to 284. There were several interrelated[…]

By David Alexander Marques PhD Student, Department of Fish Ecology and Evolution University of Bern and Eawag, Kastanienbaum, Switzerland Galapagos Finches. Image credit: Paul Krawczuk, Flicker. More than 150 years have passed since Darwin and Wallace discovered the principles of natural selection and mused on how they might lead to new species. In the meantime,[…]

By Zoë Schlanger / 04.12.2016 For people living on the thousands of islands that dot the seas, climate change isn’t just a threat. Sea level rise is already eating their land from the coast lines inward, and in some cases threatening to sink them entirely. But new research suggests that by mid-century, 73 percent of[…]

The stage of the Antiquity Amphitheater in Bulgaria’s Plovdiv. Photo: Tourbillion, Wikipedia The city of Plovdiv in Southern Bulgaria has formally given the start of a Norway/EEA-funded project for the “digitization”, i.e. filming, photographing, 3D presentation, and web publication of Plovdiv’s archaeological and historical heritage. Bulgaria’s Plovdiv boasts a myriad of archaeological, historical, and cultural[…]

Portrait by Charles Wilson Peale, 1791 / Creative Commons Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826) was the third President of the United States (1801–1809), principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), and an influential Founding Father of the United States. Major events during his presidency include the Louisiana Purchase (1803), the[…]

Sarah Palin doesn’t have the guts to debate Bill Nye, so she’s debating a video instead By April Hamlin / 04.12.2016 The internet is buzzing with rumors that Sarah Palin will be debating Bill Nye on climate change. Well, not quite. The word salad connoisseur doesn’t have the guts to debate the science guy in[…]

By Dr. Julia Fleischhack / 04.11.2016 Postdoctoral Fellow Institut für Kulturanthropologie / Europäische Ethnologie In the provocation with which he opened this session of Correspondences, Daniel Miller points to the problem of fetishizing the Internet as an object and field of study. Might it not then be productive to take a closer and critical[…]

Detail from Add MS 37955 A: a miniature of the Death and Assumption of the Virgin Mary James Freeman, looks at cuttings from a huge 14th-century Italian choirbook and how digital technology is now helping scholars build a picture of the once intact original through virtually reuniting the “diaspora” of fragments. By Dr. James Freeman[…]

By Matthew A. McIntosh / 04.12.2016 RNC Chairman Reince Priebus has as good as made himself the next bulls-eye for Donald Trump with a Tweet late this evening referencing Trump’s kicking and screaming about what he says as unfair and rigged primaries. Priebus tapped out: Nomination process known for a year + beyond. It’s the[…]